In the Federalist #10 paper, James Madison dismisses attempts to eliminate the causes of political faction and
claims that a well-ordered nation-state can temper and control this phenomenon instead.
In a two-page (total) response, answer the following questions.
Has the United States, with its constitutional limits, federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,
been successful at tempering and controlling political faction?
What of the so-called interest group warfare that characterizes democratic politics?
Is politics merely the continuation of war by other means (to turn Carl von Clausewitz on his head) and, if so,
can popular government be sustained despite this?
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